DOBBS FERRY, a village of Westchester county, New York, on the east bank of the Hudson river, opposite the northern end of the Palisades, tom. N. of New York city. It is served by the New York Central railroad. The population was 5,741 in 193o. It is the seat of two private schools and of The Children's Village (formerly the New York Juvenile asylum, incorporated 1851), a reform school for New York boys, on the cottage plan. The prin cipal manufacturing establishment is the printing plant of the Methodist Book concern, employing 600 workers. There are many fine country homes in the vicinity. About 1775 Jeremiah Dobbs, a Swede (probably from Delaware) began operating a skiff ferry here, which was kept up by his family for a century. During the Revolution fortifications were erected, and the village was a rendezvous for the British army after the Battle of White Plains and for an American division in Jan. 17 7 7. Washington's army encamped near by on July 4, 1781, and started thence for York town the following month. In the Van Brugh Livingston house, on May 6, 1783, Washington and Governor Clinton met General Sir Guy Carleton to negotiate for the evacuation of the posts still held by the British. The village was incorporated in 1873, as Green burgh, hut the original name was soon resumed.